Monday, August 05, 2024

Protests in Britain Fueled by Fast-Spreading Misinformation

Russia's Telegram app and Elon Musk's X platform are named by the New York Times as the main spreader of false information that are fueling anti-immigration protests in Britain. "The wave of protests and unrest has been driven by fast-spreading online misinformation, much of it promulgated by far-right voices on the social media platform X and the Telegram messaging app. They include neo-Nazis, violent soccer fans, anti-Muslim factions, and social media influencers who have amplified their messaging to scores of followers," the NYT article states.

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"LONDON -- A number of British police officers were injured Saturday as far-right activists faced off with anti-racism protesters in cities and towns across the country, following a stabbing rampage at a dance class earlier this week that left three girls dead and several wounded.

With dozens of similar gatherings taking place around the country this warm and sunny weekend, police have mounted a significant security operation, deploying thousands more officers onto the streets, many in riot gear.

Police have also made more prison cells available and are using surveillance and facial recognition technology. Court hours have also been extended to judge those arrested."

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"The violence erupted earlier this week, ostensibly in protest of Monday's stabbing attack in Southport. A 17-year-old male has been arrested.

False rumors spread online that the young man was a Muslim and an immigrant, fueling anger among far-right supporters.

Suspects under 18 are usually not named in the U.K., but Judge Andrew Menary ordered Axel Rudakubana, born in Wales to Rwandan parents, to be identified, in part to stop the spread of misinformation."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-03 03:21 PM

Corky:

The UK security services previously linked rightwing arsonists in London to the Wagner Group. The Kremlin is up to something.

Sources:

www.telegraph.co.uk

www.gov.uk

www.ft.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-08-03 05:12 PM

Aw yeah. The forever comfortable white go-to.

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-08-03 07:41 PM

The English Defense League (EDL) members look all white, see for yourself:

www.arabianbusiness.com

www.telegraph.co.uk

i.dailymail.co.uk

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-08-04 02:07 AM

@#2 ... The UK security services previously linked rightwing arsonists in London to the Wagner Group. The Kremlin is up to something. ...

UK PM slams Elon Musk for saying far-right riots 'inevitable'
www.politico.eu

... Britain's Keir Starmer took aim at Elon Musk after the tech billionaire claimed the wave of far-right violence hitting the U.K. was "inevitable."

The British prime minister's spokesperson said there was "no justification" for Musk's comments, posted this weekend on the X platform he now owns. ...

Musk -- who has faced criticism over the spread on X of false information about the attacker's identity -- claimed Sunday that "civil war is inevitable" in the U.K. ...


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-05 02:43 PM

Musk and the Russians are just practicing for Nov in America.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-08-05 08:31 PM

The world has a right wing Nazi problem.

We need to rid the world of this filth.

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-08-06 08:09 AM

Disinformation, propaganda and straight up lying is ruining the world. From Russia to Mar A Largo these vermin like to confuse the people by gaslighting as they do what they accuse others of doing. Although, this case of the 17 year Axel Rudakubana that murdered several children was perpetrated by the son of immigrants and this still matters as either he is crazy or a crazed religious fanatic that hates Christians and White people. Also, a lot of this violence was by not just far right people but, by regular folks because the Moslems in their communities are the least tolerant people on the planet and their men are a lot of times criminals, thugs and assault the women in public for having the mordacity to walk with out a man at their side. Also, for decades the police in numerous English cities and towns ignored Moslem grooming gangs that preyed upon English children and gang raped at will because the police could care less about poor white kids getting turned out and that they did not want to upset the Moslem communities with calling them out for this barbarism. I lived in Scandinavia in the eighties and saw first hand how Moslem men harassed the liberated women and then would somehow paint themselves as victims when they got called out on in. I was teaching in Norway for a couple small Moslem children whose parents were real sweet hearts and when I asked the father of one of the kids why he was wishing his kids learn English he told me it was because he felt the Norwegians were racist towards his people and wanted to move to England. I told him he was better off in Norway but he wanted to be in a larger Moslem community so he could raise his kids as he pleased with his religion dominating their lives. I asked him about the Moslem men grabbing white women's ----- and asses in public, which happened several times to my Norwegian girlfriend in front of me, and he claimed that he never saw it. There is the problem right there and the Brits I can see have had enough of this abject denial by the Moslems who are now in larger numbers than the British born folks near them and they push everybody that gets in their way. Of course, this crowd was manipulated by the EDL but it is really the fault of the Moslem men that are complete over the top pigs in public towards everybody not like them. My Chilean wife's sister and her cousins a young girl of 17 and her mom middle aged woman who were living in Scotland while the mother studied her PHD at Edinburg went to London and they said that on the subway, Moslem men constantly rubbed sexually harassed them, rubbed upon them and breathed nasty ---- into their ears. Nobody stepped up to help them and they wanted just to leave the country because of this ----. Let us tell it like it is and that is that the Moslem community in England needs to police their young men or face getting burnt out.

#8 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2024-08-06 07:11 PM

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